just_another_bozo_on_this_bus

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So would you vote for the anti-incumbent even if they espoused views entirely opposite of your own, just because they aren't the incumbent? (and, yes, I realize the JW will likely not allow you to respond.)

"There shouldn't be any more arbitrary and capricious comment deletions as there have been recently."

Once forum administrators start deleting posts for more than a few very well-defined reasons (obscenity, direct insults to other posters, etc.) "arbitrary and capricious" soon become the deciding criteria for moderation, as this forum has well demonstrated.

This is about pushing Roberts even further to the right. It's an example of the paranoia that the Koch Bros and other creators of the TeaParty have instilled in all Republicans (and even some Democrats in conservative districts) that unless they toe the fascist line, they'll get primary opposition.

I understand your point, but replacing the old system with a worse one, even more susceptible to corruption and favoritism, is a step backwards that even you should be able to recognize. (yes, the federal system of appointing judges is a bad one-- emulating it on the state level makes it even more prone to cronyism and corruption.)

You left out inflation and outright profiteering by our well-connected pave-it-over industries, but Armstrong has already demonstrated his predilection for pulling out numbers from some dark space or another.